A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
Bob Dylan
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
African Proverb
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
Theodore Roosevelt
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
Charles R. Swindoll
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
Oprah Winfrey
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
Thomas Dunn
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
Vin Diesel
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
Oprah Winfrey
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
Andrew Carnegie
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
Magical
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
Carl von Clausewitz, On War
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
Brian Tracy
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
Eckhart Tolle
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
Victor Kiam
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
Lisa Earle McLeod
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
Michelle Sedas
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Anais Nin
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
Byron Katie
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
Joseph Cambell
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
Mary Jean Irion
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
The journey is the reward.”
Greg Norman
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
Dalai Lama
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
Groucho Marx
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
William Shakespeare
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
Albert Schweitzer
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Thomas Edison
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
Anita Roddick
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
Oscar Wilde
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
Edward Bulwer Lytton
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
Kathleen Jo Ryan
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
Mary Kay Ash
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
Martha Beck
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
General Omar Bradley
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
Jesse Jackson
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
John F. Kennedy
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
Thomas Carlyle
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
Noela Evans
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
William James
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter